KodeshWay does not use the name "Jesus." It uses Yeshua. Three reasons — and they are about returning the Name to what He was actually called.
It is His real name.
"Jesus" is not a translation of His name. It is a fourth-generation transliteration — Hebrew → Greek → Latin → English — through three languages that lost a sound at every step (no "sh" in Greek, no eta in Latin, the letter J added in modern English). His mother said Yeshua. His disciples said Yeshua. The malak of the Lord said Yeshua. Sha'ul, writing his letters in Greek, was still talking about a man named Yeshua whose name had been transliterated for the Greek-speaking world the same way Yerushalayim became "Jerusalem."
"Jesus" is the English approximation of the Greek approximation of His Hebrew name. The Hebrew name has been there the whole time. Saying His real name is not novel; it is the original.
"She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Yeshua, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins." Mattityahu 1:21 · KWS
The real name carries the gospel.
"Jesus" means nothing in English. It is a sound. Yeshua means "YHWH saves." The malak told Yosef the name and gave the reason in the same breath: call him Yeshua, for he will save. The name is not a label glued on top of the work. The name is the work, in Hebrew, in one word.
Every time someone says "Yeshua," they are speaking the gospel — YHWH, the Father, saves through this Son. Every time someone says "Jesus," they are speaking a sound that no longer carries the meaning. The Father is not punishing the sound; He hears the heart. But the heart is helped when the words on its lips actually say what they mean. Yeshua's name preaches the gospel before the speaker even adds a sentence after it.
Restoring the Name is part of returning to The Way.
Followers of Yeshua were not first called Christians. They were called followers of The Way Maasei 9:2; 19:9; 24:14. They kept the Father's Shabbat, the Father's moedim, the Father's mitzvot — interpreted by the Son, written on the heart by the Ruach. They prayed to YHWH through Yeshua. The Hebrew names of the Father, the Son, the festivals, the people, the Tanakh, and the Brit Chadasha sat naturally on their lips because that is what the names actually were.
Centuries of translation across Greek, Latin, Old English, and modern English replaced almost every Hebrew name with an English approximation. YHWH became "the LORD." Yeshua became "Jesus." Yochanan became "John." Mattityahu became "Matthew." Yerushalayim became "Jerusalem." Pesach became "Easter" in some languages and a separate festival entirely in others. None of this was malicious; all of it was distance.
KodeshWay's whole project is to walk the distance back. The Father's name is YHWH. The Son's name is Yeshua. The Ruach is the Ruach HaKodesh. The set-apart days are the moedim. The book is the KWS — Kodesh (set apart) Way (the original term for the followers) Scripture. Saying Yeshua is one of the smallest, most repeatable acts of that return. Every time His name is said in its original form, the original form is preserved one more day.
"About this time there arose no small stir concerning the Way." Maasei 19:23 · KWS
What this is not
Not a salvation requirement, not a tribe
Salvation is not held back from anyone calling Him "Jesus." The Father has been saving people through that name in every English-speaking country for centuries. The Ruach HaKodesh works through prayers prayed in any language to anyone who turns to the Son. "Whoever shall call on the name of YHWH shall be saved" Romim 10:13 The calling is what He hears.
This is also not a Hebrew-roots tribe to join, a movement to subscribe to, or an identity to perform. There is no membership, no fee, no test. There is one Father, one Son, one Ruach, and one Bride. The Bride is gathered from every language on earth. Speaking His real name is something the Bride is doing — quietly, increasingly — across every nation as the Father restores what was lost.
What this is
The truth about His name
His name is Yeshua. It always was. It was His name on the cross, in the tomb, on the road to Emmaus, in the upper room, on the throne. It is His name today. When the prophets said, "at the name of Yeshua every knee should bow" Filipim 2:10, they wrote it in Greek as Iēsous because they were writing to Greek-speakers, but the Person whose name they meant has only ever had one. Knees will bow at His name. Better to learn what that name actually is now.
His name is Yeshua. YHWH saves. The Word made flesh. The Lamb who was slain. The Lion of the tribe of Yehudah. The same yesterday, today, and forever. Call Him by the name His mother said.